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norwegianforestreader's review
dark
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Slavery, Torture, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Infertility
gerardine's review
3.0
This is my first time reading this series. The Iced Maid Tails it's the 8 novel in the No. 2 feline detective agency. Hettie and her feline friends are trying to uncover the mystery of 3 missing kitties Camay, Comfort and Windolene.
It was a good book in my opinion but I was surprised many times of how disturbing some parts of the story were. Also I must add that these cats did not stop eating in this story. It was a bit repetitive how much they talked, eat and described different kind of foods.
3 stars for me.
thanks to Netgalley and Duckworth books for providing me with an Arc.
It was a good book in my opinion but I was surprised many times of how disturbing some parts of the story were. Also I must add that these cats did not stop eating in this story. It was a bit repetitive how much they talked, eat and described different kind of foods.
3 stars for me.
thanks to Netgalley and Duckworth books for providing me with an Arc.
longtimereader's review
5.0
This book is so cute! It's just purrfect in many ways. The characters have such cute and punny or funny names. I enjoyed every page of this novel. It's a series, but I haven't read the others. This book stands on its own though. These cats are just my style. They are cats who are mirroring humans. If you want a fun mystery read, with lots of laughs and purrfect cuteness, this is it.
My copy came from Net Galley. This review is my own, left of my own choice. Thoughts and opinions in this review are my own.
My copy came from Net Galley. This review is my own, left of my own choice. Thoughts and opinions in this review are my own.
annarella's review
5.0
This series is becoming a favorite and I started this ARC as soon as I downloaded it.
I also ended it as fast as I could.
It's a great mix of cozy mystery, humour and gothic story. The plot is well crafted and keeps you hooked till the last page, the mystery is complex and well thought, the cast of characters as lovely as usual.
I love this world of cat and the names of the cats are a strike of genius.
I can't wait to read the next instalment.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to Farrago and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
I also ended it as fast as I could.
It's a great mix of cozy mystery, humour and gothic story. The plot is well crafted and keeps you hooked till the last page, the mystery is complex and well thought, the cast of characters as lovely as usual.
I love this world of cat and the names of the cats are a strike of genius.
I can't wait to read the next instalment.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to Farrago and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
helenh's review
4.0
The Ice Maid’s Tail is the latest in the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency series. This is #8, a wonderful achievement.
Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are our private detectives of record. Never mind that they’re cats. You know that if you’ve read the other books in the series, and you should have, of course (well, the cover, the title and the book description are all clues of a sort, but who’s counting? Let’s not be clever clogs here). Otherwise, they walk, they talk and they solve mysteries like humans do, and they’ve got a doozy on their paws here.
It’s a dire winter in their little village, and everybody’s hunkered down, trying to survive as best they can. A lot of the local folk have been put up at Wither-Fork Hall, a large baronial mansion. Word comes that some orphaned kittens are missing, kittens that have been kept in the Folly on the mansion grounds. Now, Tilly senses things, and the Folly at the manse doesn’t feel “right” to her. She knows about these things. And the reader will, too, as the story goes along.
The kittens may have run away rather than be exposed any longer to the strict religious training of the orphanage’s leaders. If they have, they’ve probably frozen to death. It’s a gruesome beginning.
And there’s a precedent to our tale, and where the title of the book comes from – a horror story told to impressionable young kittens, the stuff of young feline nightmares, as the resident gypsy cat calls it. I don’t make this stuff up, folks. Our author, Mandy Morton does, and a good thing, too. It’s fun, and entertaining, and as much in keeping with the tenor of the series as the other books.
There’s a mysterious fire to contend with. Are the little kits really dead? The house has its secrets -- what’s behind it all? It all comes to a head in the caves underneath Wither-Fork Hall. Evil and cruelty come in many forms, feline as well as human. And we learn that feline justice is final, and without remorse. Tilly and Hettie and their friends and co-workers have it all well in hand.
Thanks to the publisher and to NetGalley for a copy of this book, in exchange for this review.
Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are our private detectives of record. Never mind that they’re cats. You know that if you’ve read the other books in the series, and you should have, of course (well, the cover, the title and the book description are all clues of a sort, but who’s counting? Let’s not be clever clogs here). Otherwise, they walk, they talk and they solve mysteries like humans do, and they’ve got a doozy on their paws here.
It’s a dire winter in their little village, and everybody’s hunkered down, trying to survive as best they can. A lot of the local folk have been put up at Wither-Fork Hall, a large baronial mansion. Word comes that some orphaned kittens are missing, kittens that have been kept in the Folly on the mansion grounds. Now, Tilly senses things, and the Folly at the manse doesn’t feel “right” to her. She knows about these things. And the reader will, too, as the story goes along.
The kittens may have run away rather than be exposed any longer to the strict religious training of the orphanage’s leaders. If they have, they’ve probably frozen to death. It’s a gruesome beginning.
And there’s a precedent to our tale, and where the title of the book comes from – a horror story told to impressionable young kittens, the stuff of young feline nightmares, as the resident gypsy cat calls it. I don’t make this stuff up, folks. Our author, Mandy Morton does, and a good thing, too. It’s fun, and entertaining, and as much in keeping with the tenor of the series as the other books.
There’s a mysterious fire to contend with. Are the little kits really dead? The house has its secrets -- what’s behind it all? It all comes to a head in the caves underneath Wither-Fork Hall. Evil and cruelty come in many forms, feline as well as human. And we learn that feline justice is final, and without remorse. Tilly and Hettie and their friends and co-workers have it all well in hand.
Thanks to the publisher and to NetGalley for a copy of this book, in exchange for this review.
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